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1923–2012 England

Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore (4 March 1923 – 9 December 2012) was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominent status in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter.

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Nuclear power plants are, next to nuclear warheads themselves, the most dangerous devices that man has ever created.

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I may be accused of being a dinosaur, but I would remind you that dinosaurs ruled the Earth for a very long time.

You see, anyone who is interested in astronomy will gravitate to it, as I did. If you start teaching it as a school subject, it's going to be taught badly, like everything else these days, and enthusiasm is going to be killed.

William Herschel was the first man to give a reasonably correct picture of the shape of our star-system or galaxy; he was the best telescope-maker of his time, and possibly the greatest observer who ever lived.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Patrick Moore (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.